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Star medalist of the 1972 Olympics
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Spitz is a mountain in Liechtenstein in the Rätikon range of the Eastern Alps close to the border with Austria and the town of Malbun with a height of .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
breed of small Pomeranian dog, 1842, from German Spitz , Spitzhund , from spitz "pointed" (see spit (n.2)). So called from the tapering shape of its muzzle.
Usage examples of spitz.
From Spitz, I recruited one Shepherd and one Doberman, and from a civilian boy, Bobby, I recruited Poncho, a fast, muscular Shepherd.
Two days later he handed me a requisition form for three new dogs, which I was to pick up from Carl Spitz, owner of the Hollywood Dog Training School, and the one who had worked with the 1st Platoon before it went overseas.
When I asked the colonel if Washington had specified what kind of dogs I was to get, he said no, I should get the best dogs Spitz had available.
For when it is stated, for instance, that the German Spitz dog unites more easily than other dogs with foxes, or that certain South American indigenous domestic dogs do not readily cross with European dogs, the explanation which will occur to everyone, and probably the true one, is that these dogs have descended from several aboriginally distinct species.
Spitz was the leader, likewise experienced, and while he could not always get at Buck, he growled sharp reproof now and again, or cunningly threw his weight in the traces to jerk Buck into the way he should go.